Casper Messner 
Casper was born in Brotzingen, Germany.1 Casper's father was Michael Messner and his mother was Salome Reister. His paternal grandparents were Michael Messner and Barbara. He had two brothers and three sisters, named Christian, Christoph, Christina, Dorothea and Salome. He died in 1781 in Lancaster Co., PA.1 General Notes
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[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 9, Ed. 1, Tree #0216, Date of Import: Oct 19, 1998]
Church records of the Protestant Parish at Brotzingen, Germany, show that Casper and his brother Christian came to America with their parents in 1738. Casper sometimes used the name MASON, when he purchased land before the American Revolution. Maiden Creek, Berks County, PA, where Casper and Anna Barbara Eckhardt were married in 1743, is still a small village near Reading, PA. During the Revolutionary War, Casper served as a private in Col. Alexander Lowry's Third Battalion. Lancaster County Militia, in Capt. Andrew Bogg's Company. Military Record - Pennsylvania Archives - Serie 5 - Vol. 73 - P. 215 DAR Patriot Index, Pg. 466. Land surveyed - July 29, 1745 - Pa. Archives - Series 3 - Vol. 24 - pg. 476 - May 26, 1778 - Pa. Archives, Series 2, Vol. 13, pg. 458. Casper died in 1781, in Lancaster Co., PA. His will is in the Lancaster County Courthouse, in Will Book D-1-142, dated 1781. Anna Barbara died in Lancaster Co., PA in 1785. Her will is in the Lancaster Co. PA Courthouse in Will Book Y-2-444, dated 1785. Both Casper and Anna are buried in Lancaster Co. PA. - research done by Col. Barnes, Prescott, AZ.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.WFT Est. 1602-1636 d.WFT Est. 1665-1721
- b.1663 in Germany d.28 May 1741 in Brotzingen, Germany
- b.1701 in Germany d.1780 in PA
- b.WFT Est. 1657-1680 d.30 Jun 1725 in Brotzingen, Germany
- b.21 FEB 1721/22 in Brotzingen, Germany d.1781 in Lancaster Co., PA
- b.WFT Est. 1681-1708 in Germany d.WFT Est. 1736-1796
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Details of Casper's family with Anna Barbara Elkhardt
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